I think this comic is either stalking me or reading my mind.This evening, I had the Earthquake In Illinois version showing "Six months later" as hiking "only three more miles" through a blizzard. Totally legit. I mentioned it on a forum and said that my dad has an ongoing debate with his Californian cousin: Which is worse, earthquakes in California, or tornadoes in Iowa (or Illinois)?

Now I have the "Earthquake in Illinois" version showing "Six months later" as a tornado, and Illinois as "This place is the worst!" Same browser, same location, just a couple of hours time difference.

Using Win7 Chrome I get:http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/fab69d4927e845dfd9f4d0a22a9f62c1709d7490628511c97fe96f2a387f69aa.pngIm in College Park, MD, where Sergey Brin went to college. Could fuel the location-based theory.

Using Win7 Firefox I get, the raptor part only appears if screen is big enough:http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/b6161debb4184e323e2fd74eb94e944c68e6ddb458cc39dae3f5a183f4c7d538.pnghttp://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/638cb7f0757e50f9352ce8e44fce5c498fbcb47275c7500d377c0f0460e37432.pnghttp://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/4d137d6a3e80ad3caa3ed7e4833cf1a94a369250529329370c457d478002da19.pnghttp://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/7f440825529c84dd5d06529750f2466b1ed70c9d06aa5bff991d8428e834869d.png

In chrome I get the snake one.In ff I get the one with the turtle.In IE/opera/safari I get the white hole one.

But all of them have been posted here already.

that's what I got in the browsers I use too, it's a little disappointing that those seem to be the defaults, or at least the most common.

It just occurred to me, this is going to fuck up counting for anyone who wants to know how many xkcd comics there are, I mean, do you count every comic for yesterday, every variation of every comic, only significant variations of the comics (as in not just one word such as place name changed, but anything more than that) etc.?

On a hunch, I tried using Links - the text-only, terminal-window browser... Sadly, nothing special showed up! However, it did make obvious the tiny, tiny paragraph underneath the usual disclaimer, which reads:

We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves.The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm. This is close.

I'm not sure I remember seeing this before, but I might just have been unobservant.

xarob wrote:On a hunch, I tried using Links - the text-only, terminal-window browser... Sadly, nothing special showed up! However, it did make obvious the tiny, tiny paragraph underneath the usual disclaimer, which reads:

We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves.The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm. This is close.

I'm not sure I remember seeing this before, but I might just have been unobservant.

Actually it has been on the page as long as I can remember, so no clues there sadly enough.

xarob wrote:On a hunch, I tried using Links - the text-only, terminal-window browser... Sadly, nothing special showed up! However, it did make obvious the tiny, tiny paragraph underneath the usual disclaimer, which reads:

We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves.The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm. This is close.

I'm not sure I remember seeing this before, but I might just have been unobservant.

Actually it has been on the page as long as I can remember, so no clues there sadly enough.

Yes, now I've done a bit of searching I realise it's not new. Pity! However, if I hadn't used a text-only browser I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all... which does kind of fit in with the theme.

I'm in Tokyo behind a corporate firewall. Regardless of whether I use Firefox or Chromium (on Ubuntu Linux), I get this one:[img="https://plus.google.com/photos/104893846791139180887/albums/5726730722094464513"]

oren0 wrote:

plumpy wrote:Here's what happens if you connect from Google's corporate network:http://ultraparallel.org/xkcd-google.png

JackDMF wrote:This is the one I get in Germany:In Firefox and Chrome.With IE8 and Opera 11 there is this mobile picture of a white hole...

There was no Soviet blockade of East Germany. There was a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, which was surrounded by the Soviet Occupied Zone, which would become the Democratic Republic of Germany, or East Germany the next year in 1949.

aldonius wrote:On my mobile I get a square image, black edges sketch-line-fading in to a white, centered, circle.

Isn't there something at the bottom left of the image ? Also on the left top.Can anyone dig any info out of this image ?http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/a4a856e1f7316d4a3d94958aace6a6375f20e113a3c8a24cefe07c29a64a0f01.jpg

ZerothRoot wrote:I put in http://4chan.org as the referrer and got this gem:

<image, but no bbcodes allowed for new users>

While we're on the subject of this one, what's the joke? I frequent 4chan, and I still don't get it.

Edit: Wait...is it a /b/ joke? ...It's a /b/ joke, isn't it?

*suddenly feels stupid*

There are a couple of jokes that I can see;A while back, there was some jokes around were users would post a picture that said "you need a 4chan gold account to view this picture" with a comment such as "this is a sweet picture of a cat".Sex and violence is just the nature of 4chan.

BAReFOOt wrote:WRONG! “Umwelt” is the German word for “environment”. (In the sense of “the world around us”.)

As a punishment, I will torture you by calling a Steak House (a house called “House” that was steak-ized) with my handy, and tell them “I become a steak! And I will a Schüttel-Shake!”. Then a woman with sillicon breasts, a slip you can see below the mini-rock and the matching brain (hint: not that of a genie) will come to my door, and bring it to me. I open the door, and still she hands me the steak. I get suspicious, and assuming the steak is full of gift, I throw it in the trash.Well, does this make and sin to you?? … See?

Lying in bed this morning I checked out the site (on iPhone Safari) and got the white tunnel. I was baffled, so I thought I'd check in the forums for someone more intellectual than me to give an explanation.

Which stopped after seeing the Portal Snake on Firefox 10 (I'm in the UK, surprised I didn't get the UK one) and reading the first few comments.

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